Conference on Development and Plasticity of the Vertebrate Spinal Cord: Progress & Future Directions; Ohio State University; July 19-21, 1989

本次研讨会汇集了研究脊椎动物脊髓发育和重组的各个方面的研究人员。讲习班的主要重点是正常发育，但将尝试将正常发育与成年动物和发育中动物脊髓损伤后的事件联系起来。近年来，我们对脊髓神经元及其分化的认识取得了重大进展，神经通路的形成、突触发生以及脊髓神经元和神经胶质的个体发生都是近年来研究的主题。通过召集一组研究不同物种的不同问题的研究人员，他们使用各种经典和现代生物学方法，我们希望进一步了解正常发育，并为未来的研究确定方向，这些研究可能导致人类脊髓损伤后功能的恢复。

This symposium/workshop conference brings together investigators studying various aspects of spinal cord development and reorganization in vertebrates. The major focus of workshop is on normal development, but attempts will be made to relate normal development to events following spinal cord injury in both adult and developing animals. In recent years significant progress has been made in our understanding of spinal cord neurons and differentiation, pathway formation, synaptogenesis and the ontogeny of spinal cord neurons and glia have all been the subjects of recent investigation. By assembling a group of investigators who work on different problems in different species and who use a variety of classical and modern biological approaches, we hope to further our understanding of normal development and to identify directions for future research that may lead to recovery of function following spinal cord injury in humans.